pass

See also: Pass, PASS, Paß, and pass.

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#PASSCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peth₂-#PASSCategory:English terms derived from Vulgar Latin#PASSCategory:English terms derived from Old French#PASSCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PASSCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PASSCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Italic#PASSCategory:Pages using etymon with no ID#PASS

    From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#PASSCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PASS passen, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#PASS passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from Vulgar LatinCategory:English terms derived from Vulgar Latin#PASS *passāre (“step, walk, pass”), derived from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PASS passus (“a step”), from Proto-ItalicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Italic#PASS *pat-s-tus, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PASS *peth₂- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom. Displaced native Old English genġan.

    Alternative forms

    Verb

    pass (third-person singular simple present passes, present participle passing, simple past and past participle passed)Category:English lemmas#PASSCategory:English verbs#PASSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. To change place.
      1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS) To move or be moved from one place to another.
        Synonyms: go, move
      2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
        Synonyms: overtake, pass by, pass over
        You will pass a house on your right.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      4. (ditransitiveCategory:English ditransitive verbs#PASS) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
        Synonyms: deliver, give, hand, make over, send, transfer, transmit
        The waiter passed biscuits and cheese.
        Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
        John passed Suzie a note.
        Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
        The torch was passed from hand to hand.
        Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      5. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS, medicineCategory:en:Medicine#PASS) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
        Synonyms: evacuate, void
        He was passing blood in both his urine and his stool.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
        The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      6. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS, nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#PASS) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
      7. (sportsCategory:en:Sports#PASS) To make various kinds of movement.
        1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS, soccerCategory:en:Football (soccer)#PASS) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
          • 20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth
            Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.
        3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
          • 2017 September 18, Nicole Yang, “What you need to know about the Patriots’ big win — and their next opponent”, in Boston Globe‎:
            Brady passed the ball to nine different receivers and handed it off to seven.
            Category:English terms with quotations#PASS
        4. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, fencingCategory:en:Fencing#PASS) To make a lunge or swipe.
          Synonym: thrust
        5. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, American footballCategory:en:Football (American)#PASS) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
          The Patriots passed on third and long.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      8. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS) To go from one person to another.
      9. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
        Synonyms: circulate, pass around
      10. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
        Synonyms: admit, let in, let past
        pass a person into a theater or over a railroadCategory:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      11. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS, cookingCategory:en:Cooking#PASS) To put through a sieve.
        When it's finished cooking, you should pass the sauce to get rid of any lumps.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
    2. To change in state or status
      1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
        He passed from youth into old age.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      2. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
        At first, she was worried, but that feeling soon passed.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      3. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, euphemisticCategory:English euphemisms#PASS) To die.
        Synonyms: pass away, pass on, pass over; see also Thesaurus:die
        His grandmother passed yesterday.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      4. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS) To achieve a successful outcome from.
        He attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
        Of the Ancient Wonders, only the pyramids have passed the test of time.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      5. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
        Synonym: be accepted by
        Despite the efforts of the opposition, the bill passed.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
        The bill passed both houses of Congress.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
        The bill passed the Senate, but did not pass in the House.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      6. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, lawCategory:en:Law#PASS) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
        The estate passes by the third clause in Mr Smith's deed to his son.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
        When the old king passed away with only a daughter as an heir, the throne passed to a woman for the first time in centuries.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      7. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
        Synonyms: approve, enact, ratify
        He passed the bill through the committee.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      9. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, lawCategory:en:Law#PASS) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
      10. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
        Synonyms: pronounce, say, speak, utter
      11. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
        • 1881, Buddhist Suttas, page 115:
          And rising out of the fourth stage of deep meditation he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of space is alone present. And passing out of the mere consciousness of the infinity of space he entered into the state of mind to which the infinity of though is along present.
          Category:English terms with quotations#PASS
        • 2010, Joaquim Siles i Borràs, The Ethics of Husserl's Phenomenology, →ISBN, page 158:
          Rather, he argues that 'within the zero-stage, all special affections have passed over into a general undifferentiated affection; all special consciousnesses have passed over into the one, general, persistently available background-consciousness of our past, the consciousness of the completely unarticulated, completely indistinct horizon of the past, which brings to a close the living, moving retentional past.'
          Category:English terms with quotations#PASS
        • 2011, Thomas Hill Green, R. L. Nettleship, Works of Thomas Hill Green, →ISBN, page lxxviii:
          What we call 'our' minds are events beginning with birth and ending with death, each again broken up into other events or mental states, into and out of which we are perpetually passing.
          Category:English terms with quotations#PASS
    3. To move through time.
      1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
        Synonyms: elapse, go by; see also Thesaurus:elapse
        Their vacation passed pleasantly.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS, of time) To spend.
        What will we do to pass the time?Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
        Synonyms: disregard, ignore, take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore
      4. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS) To continue.
        Synonyms: continue, go on
      5. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
        You're late, but I'll let it pass.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      6. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
        Synonyms: bear, endure, suffer, tolerate, undergo; see also Thesaurus:tolerate
      7. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS) To happen.
        Synonyms: happen, occur; see also Thesaurus:happen
        • 1876, The Dilemma, Chapter LIII, republished in Littell's Living Age, series 5, volume 14, page 274:
          […] for the memory of what passed while at that place is almost blank.
    4. To be accepted.
      1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, stativeCategory:English stative verbs#PASS) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
        It isn't ideal, but it will pass.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      3. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, stativeCategory:English stative verbs#PASS, sociologyCategory:en:Sociology#PASS) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
        Coordinate term: roleplay (“act out a social role”)
        • 1941 December 22, “How to Tell Japs from the Chinese”, in LIFE, page 81:
          Chinese sometimes pass for Europeans, but Japs more often approach Western types.
          Category:English terms with quotations#PASS
        • 1999, Irene Preiss, Fixed for Life: The True Saga of How Tom Became Sally, page 249:
          […] a situation where I had to know whether I could pass as a woman, and not tell anyone, and not be asked what I was doing dressed as a woman.
          Category:English terms with quotations#PASS
        • 2010 December, Nikki Khanna, Cathryn Johnson, “Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work among Biracial Americans”, in Social Psychology Quarterly, volume 73, number 4, →DOI:
          Like Olivia's aunts (described above), many Americans passed as white to resist the racially restrictive one-drop rule and the racial status quo of the Jim Crow era (Daniel 2002; Williamson 1980).
          Category:English terms with quotations#PASS
    5. To refrain from doing something.
      1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS) To decline something that is offered or available.
        Coordinate terms: pass on, pass up
        He asked me to go to the cinema with him, but I think I'll pass.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS) To reject; to pass up.
      3. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
        I haven't any idea of the answer, so I'll have to pass.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      4. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
      5. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, card gamesCategory:en:Card games#PASS) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
    6. To do or be better.
      1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#PASS) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
        Synonyms: exceed, surpass
      2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PASS) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
        Synonyms: better, exceed, excel, outdo, surpass, transcend; see also Thesaurus:exceed
    7. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PASS, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#PASS) To take heed, to have an interest, to care.
      Synonyms: take heed, take notice; see also Thesaurus:pay attention
    Conjugation
    Derived terms
    Translations
    medicine: to eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes; to go through the intestines
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    See also

    Etymology 2

    From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#PASSCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PASS pas, pase, pace, from passen (“to pass”).

    Noun

    pass (plural passes)Category:English lemmas#PASSCategory:English nouns#PASSCategory:English countable nouns#PASSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
      Synonyms: gap, notch
      • 1841 September 28 (date written), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Miscellaneous.] Excelsior.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 130:
        "Try not the Pass!" the old man said; / "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, / The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" / And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior!
        Category:English terms with quotations#PASS
      • 1910, Maud Diver, “The Valley of Decision”, in The Great Amulet‎, New York: John Lane Company, →OCLC, page 368:
        Followed two more weeks of marching,—rougher marching this time,—through the core of the lofty mountains that divide India from Central Asia; across the terrible Depsang Plains, seventeen thousand feet up; and over four passes choked with snow; till they came upon a deserted fort, set in the midst of stark space, and knew that here, indeed, was the limit of human habitation. Next day the work of exploration had begun in earnest.
        Category:English terms with quotations#PASS
    2. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
    3. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
      • 1921, John Griffin, "Trailing the Grizzly in Oregon", in Forest and Stream, pages 389-391 and 421-424, republished by Jeanette Prodgers in 1997 in The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear, page 35:
        [The bear] made a pass at the dog, but he swung out and above him […]
    4. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
      Synonym: transit
    5. An attempt.
      My first pass at a career of writing proved unsuccessful.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
      1. A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
        Synonyms: proposition, come-on
        The man kicked his friend out of the house after he made a pass at his wife.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
    7. Success in an examination or similar test.
      I gained three passes at A-level, in mathematics, French, and English literature.
      Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
    8. (fencingCategory:en:Fencing#PASS) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
      Synonym: thrust
    9. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
    10. (sportsCategory:en:Sports#PASS) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
      Everyone in the football stadium expected a pass play on third down.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
    11. (rail transportCategory:en:Rail transportation#PASS) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
      Antonym: meet
    12. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
      Synonyms: access, admission, entry
    14. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
      a railroad pass; a theater pass; a military pass
      Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
    15. (baseballCategory:en:Baseball#PASS) An intentional walk.
      Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
    16. (sportsCategory:en:Sports#PASS) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
      • 2020 September 13, Andrew Benson, “Tuscan Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton claims 90th win after incredible race”, in BBC Sport‎:
        Albon made hard work of the result. Starting fourth, he dropped back to seventh at the second start and had to fight his way back up, which he did with some excellent passes.
        Category:English terms with quotations#PASS
    17. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
      Synonyms: condition, predicament, state
    18. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#PASS) Estimation; character.
    19. (cookingCategory:en:Cooking#PASS) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
    20. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
      A pass would have seen her win the game, but instead she gave a wrong answer and lost a point, putting her in second place.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
    21. (computingCategory:en:Computing#PASS) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
      Most Pascal compilers process source code in a single pass.Category:English terms with usage examples#PASS
    Derived terms
    Terms derived from pass (noun)
    Descendants
    Translations
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    Etymology 3

    Short for password.

    Noun

    pass (plural passes)Category:English lemmas#PASSCategory:English nouns#PASSCategory:English countable nouns#PASSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. (computingCategory:en:Computing#PASS, slangCategory:English slang#PASS) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
      • 1999, Jonny Durango, “IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!!”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet):
        If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.
        Category:English terms with quotations#PASS
    Translations

    Further reading

    See also

    Anagrams

    Category:English ergative verbs#PASS Category:en:Landforms#PASS

    Chinese

    Etymology 1

    From EnglishCategory:Cantonese terms derived from English#PASS pass (noun).

    Pronunciation

    Category:Chinese lemmas#passCategory:Cantonese lemmas#passCategory:Chinese nouns#passCategory:Cantonese nouns#passCategory:Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation#passCategory:Chinese terms written in foreign scripts#pass

    Noun

    passCategory:Chinese lemmas#PASSCategory:Chinese nouns#PASSCategory:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. (Hong Kong CantoneseCategory:Hong Kong Cantonese#PASS) pass (document granting permission to pass)
      有呢張pass先上得車。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      有呢张pass先上得车。 [Cantonese, simp.]
      jau5 ni1 zoeng1 pass sin1 soeng5 dak1 ce1. [Jyutping]
      You can only ride the vehicle if you have this pass.
      Category:Cantonese terms with usage examples

    Etymology 2

    From EnglishCategory:Cantonese terms derived from English#PASS pass (verb).

    Pronunciation

    Category:Chinese lemmas#passCategory:Cantonese lemmas#passCategory:Chinese verbs#passCategory:Cantonese verbs#passCategory:Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation#passCategory:Chinese terms written in foreign scripts#pass

    Verb

    passCategory:Chinese lemmas#PASSCategory:Chinese verbs#PASSCategory:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. (Hong Kong CantoneseCategory:Hong Kong Cantonese#PASS) to pass; to transfer
      Pass個波過嚟。／Pass个波过嚟。 [Cantonese]  ―  Pass go3 bo1 gwo3 lai4. [Jyutping]  ―  Pass the ball over here!Category:Cantonese terms with usage examples
      將個波pass畀對家。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      将个波pass畀对家。 [Cantonese, simp.]
      zoeng1 go3 bo1 pass bei2 deoi3 gaa1. [Jyutping]
      Pass on the responsibility to the other side.
      Category:Cantonese terms with usage examples
    2. (Hong Kong CantoneseCategory:Hong Kong Cantonese#PASS) to pass; to achieve a certain benchmark or acceptance level
      今個學期我全部科都pass嗮。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      今个学期我全部科都pass嗮。 [Cantonese, simp.]
      gam1 go3 hok6 kei4 ngo5 cyun4 bou6 fo1 dou1 pass saai3. [Jyutping]
      I passed all the subjects this semester.
      Category:Cantonese terms with usage examples
      件貨pass唔pass？／件货pass唔pass？ [Cantonese]  ―  gin6 fo3 pass m4 pass? [Jyutping]  ―  Does the product meet the requirements?Category:Cantonese terms with usage examples
    3. (Hong Kong CantoneseCategory:Hong Kong Cantonese#PASS) to pass; to decline in one's turn
      今鋪我pass，唔玩。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      今铺我pass，唔玩。 [Cantonese, simp.]
      gam1 pou1 ngo5 pass, m4 waan4-2. [Jyutping]
      I'm passing and not playing this round.
      Category:Cantonese terms with usage examples

    Emilian

    Etymology

    From LatinCategory:Emilian terms inherited from Latin#PASSCategory:Emilian terms derived from Latin#PASS piscis.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    pass m (plural péss)Category:Emilian lemmas#PASSCategory:Emilian nouns#PASSCategory:Emilian entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Emilian masculine nouns#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. fish

    References

    Lepri, Luigi; Vitali, Daniele (2002), “pass”, in Dizionario Bolognese-Italiano, Italiano-Bolognese. Dizionèri Bulgnaiṡ-Itagliàn, Itagliàn-Bulgnaiṡ, 2nd edition, Bologna: Pendragon, →ISBN

    Faroese

    Etymology

    From GermanCategory:Faroese terms borrowed from German#PASSCategory:Faroese terms derived from German#PASS Pass, from ItalianCategory:Faroese terms derived from Italian#PASS passaporto.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    pass n (genitive singular pass, plural pass)Category:Faroese lemmas#PASSCategory:Faroese nouns#PASSCategory:Faroese entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Faroese neuter nouns#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. passport

    Declension

    Declension of pass (n11)
    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative pass passið pass passini
    accusative pass passið pass passini
    dative passi passinum passum passunum
    genitive pass passins passa passanna

    German

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    passCategory:German non-lemma forms#PASSCategory:German verb forms#PASSCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. singular imperative of passen

    Lombard

    Etymology

    From LatinCategory:Lombard terms derived from Latin#PASS passus.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    pass ?Category:Lombard lemmas#PASSCategory:Lombard nouns#PASSCategory:Lombard entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Requests for gender in Lombard entries#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. step
    2. mountain pass

    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Noun

    pass n (definite singular passet, indefinite plural pass, definite plural passa or passene)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#PASSCategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#PASSCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Norwegian Bokmål neuter nouns#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. a passport (travel document)
    2. clipping of fjellpass (“mountain pass”)Category:Norwegian Bokmål clippings#PASS

    Derived terms

    Verb

    passCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#PASSCategory:Norwegian Bokmål verb forms#PASSCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. imperative of passe

    References

    Category:nb:Travel#PASS

    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Etymology 1

    Borrowed from GermanCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from German#PASSCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from German#PASS Pass (“passport”), compare Danish pas and Swedish pass.

    Noun

    pass n (definite singular passet, indefinite plural pass, definite plural passa)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#PASSCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#PASSCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. a passport (travel document)
    Derived terms

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    pass n (definite singular passet, indefinite plural pass, definite plural passa)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#PASSCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#PASSCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. clipping of fjellpassCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk clippings#PASS

    References

    Category:nn:Travel#PASS

    Swedish

    Pronunciation

    Etymology 1

    From GermanCategory:Swedish terms derived from German#PASS, originally from ItalianCategory:Swedish terms derived from Italian#PASS passo.

    Noun

    pass nCategory:Swedish lemmas#PASSCategory:Swedish nouns#PASSCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Swedish neuter nouns#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. passport (document granting permission to pass)
    2. place which you (must) pass or is passing; mountain pass
    3. pace; a kind of gait
    4. place where a hunter hunts; place where a policeman patrols
    5. a shift (of work)
    6. an (exercise) session
      ett träningspass
      an exercise session / workout
      Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#PASS
      ett löppass
      a running session / run
      Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#PASS
    7. a leave notice (document granting permission to leave) (from prison)
    Declension
    Synonyms
    Derived terms
    terms derived from pass (document)
    terms derived from pass (gait)
    terms derived from pass (hunting place)
    Related terms

    Etymology 2

    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in Swedish entries#PASS

    Adverb

    passCategory:Swedish lemmas#PASSCategory:Swedish adverbs#PASSCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS (not comparable)

    1. (in "hur pass") (to what) degree
      Hur pass noggrant är testet?
      How accurate is the test? (Roughly, "To what degree is the test accurate?")
      Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#PASS
    2. (in "så pass") (to such a) degree (see såpass)
    Usage notes

    Often strictly redundant compared to just hur or så.

    See also

    Etymology 3

    From EnglishCategory:Swedish terms borrowed from English#PASSCategory:Swedish terms derived from English#PASS pass.

    Noun

    pass cCategory:Swedish lemmas#PASSCategory:Swedish nouns#PASSCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. (ball gamesCategory:sv:Ball games#PASS) pass; a transfer of the ball from one player to another in the same team
      Synonym: passning
    Declension
    Derived terms

    Etymology 4

    Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Swedish terms borrowed from French#PASSCategory:Swedish terms derived from French#PASS passe, from passer.

    Interjection

    passCategory:Swedish lemmas#PASSCategory:Swedish interjections#PASSCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#PASSCategory:Pages with entries#PASSCategory:Pages with 9 entries#PASS

    1. (gamesCategory:sv:Games#PASS) pass (I refuse to bet or bid or play)

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